Life of Saint Catherine of Siena & Other Works by Giovanni di Paolo (Italian, Siena 1398–1482)
Giovanni di Paolo paintings at the MET
Saint Catherine of Siena at the Beheading of Niccolò di Tuldo
"I have just received a head in my hands, which was of such sweetness to me that the heart cannot think, nor tongue speak, nor eye see, nor ear hear of it..."
Saint Catherine of Siena receiving the stigmata
Mid-Lent is about consciously uniting our suffering with joy in anticipation of the miracle of the resurrection
Varieties of tears in the Dialogue of Saint Catherine of Siena
Passing from finite weeping into that which is infinite
A Memory of Hunger in the Desert
An essay on the physical and metaphysical modes of Hungering
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